In Depth

Steve Carell honed his comic talent in improv and fake news, but he came into his own finding a way to use these skills to capture the comedy, pathos and truth of the human condition in films like The 40 Year-Old Virgin and TV’s The Office.

While ANNA KARENINA marks Keira Knightley’s third literary adaptation with director Joe Wright, it also shows how far Knightley has come as an actress and artist through her numerous cinematic endeavors.

Figuring out the right design and costumes for the END OF THE WORLD is not as easy as you might think. Writer/director Lorene Scafaria and her design team had to keep things real and present, but also a fantasy.

In SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, a 70-mile-wide asteroid crashing towards Earth is greeted by a sigh of resignation, followed by lots of very funny jokes. Indeed many other movies have also chosen to laugh in the face of death. Here are just a few.

In Lorene Scafaria’s comedy SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, Earth’s inhabitants are forced to consider their last days. We consider some of the grand moments in history in which people were sure their days were numbered.

In several extraordinary books, photographer/writer Melanie Dunea invited world-class chefs to share their last meal with us. In the spirit of SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, we excerpted five of them.